When is a phone not a phone? When it’s an IPhone!
I have never been a great lover of mobile phones. They always seem to ring at the most inopportune moment and texting has never been my favourite pastime. Therefore, when a gadget crazy friend of mine upgraded to the new Apple iPhone 3G and wanted to give me his old one, I was not overly impressed. Afterall, a phone is a phone and just a modern nuisance in this techno-driven world or so I thought…
After little more than one month as an IPhone user, I am now completely won over. What has caused this radical change in attitude?
Firstly, I am now able to carry around my complete CD collection complete with videos, photos and slide shows in my handbag! I’ve had a couple of Ipods for a few years now but when going out I very rarely took an IPod, mainly because my handbag is almost always stuffed to bursting and adding an IPod is probably more than my poor bag could cope with. Now, I have to take my phone but it has the added bonus of also containing some of my favourite music!
The second advantage of the IPhone is having the camera so conveniently at hand. My old mobile phone was just a phone with no camera. (Yes, in the mobile phone department I was pretty much Stone Age). When out and about I would often wish I had taken my camera with me. Now of course, the camera is there!
The third great thing about the IPhone is the possibility of adding applications (known as apps) to it. I downloaded an ebook reader from the ITunes Apps Store. Now I can carry several full sized books in my handbag and read whenever I find myself with an odd minute or two.
Last. but certainly not least, is being able to connect to the internet wherever I am and to receive emails while I am out and about. For quick, simple internet access it certainly beats carrying around a laptop!
Well, these are some of the reasons I am now an IPhone convert. Who would have ever believed it?
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